Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls(
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Counter Discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 800 manuscripts nearly one thousand
years older than any other writings of the Hebrew Scriptures. Ever since, these mysterious documents have raised many questions.
What do the scrolls tell us about the people who wrote them? What information do they have about early Christianity and Second
Temple Judaism? How do they confirm or contradict what we thought we knew about the Bible? Featuring 450 articles by an international
community of scholars, the Encyclopedia is the definitive account of what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls--their history,
relevance, meaning, and the controversies that surround them. With contributions from 100 distinguished scholars representing
diverse traditions and fields of learning, this volume offers the most comprehensive critical synthesis of current knowledge
about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along with viewing the works in their historical, archaeological, linguistic, and religious contexts,
the archaeological evidence is explored and the methods used to date, document and preserve the manuscripts are explained.
With extensive cross-references, blind entries and an index, this definitive reference work provides authoritative answers
and information for all readers

Reclaiming the Dead Sea scrolls : the history of Judaism, the background of Christianity, the lost library of Qumran by Lawrence H Schiffman(
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Because the Dead Sea Scrolls include the earliest known manuscripts of the Bible as well as Jewish documents composed just
after the Hebrew biblical period, they contain a gold mine of information about the history of Judaism and the early roots
and background of Christianity. Schiffman refocuses the controversy from who controls access to the Scrolls today to what
the Scrolls tell us about the past. He challenges the prevailing notion of earlier Scrolls scholars that the Dead Sea Scrolls
were proto-Christian, demonstrating instead their thorough-going Jewish character and their importance for understanding the
history of Judaism. Schiffman shows us that the Scrolls library in the Dead Sea caves was gathered by a breakaway priestly
sect that left Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Maccabean revolt. They were angry that their fellow Sadducees in the Temple
were content to accommodate themselves to the victorious Hasmonaean rulers who had embraced the views of the Pharisees - forerunners
of the talmudic rabbis. This loyal opposition, a band of pious Sadducee priests, retreated to the desert, taking up residence
at Qumran. From this group, the Dead Sea sect developed. In addition to its own writings, the sect gathered the texts of related
groups, placing them in its library along with numerous biblical and apocryphal texts. Those other works, some previously
known, others unknown, were preserved here in the original Hebrew or Aramaic. Numerous prayer texts, either from the Dead
Sea sect or other Jewish groups, were also preserved. Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls puts into perspective the triumph of
rabbinic Judaism after the Jewish military defeat by Rome. Finally, Schiffman maintains that a true understanding of the Scrolls
can improve relations between today's Jewish and Christian communities. --From publisher's description

The Dead Sea scrolls the truth behind the mystique by Lawrence H Schiffman(
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2014
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. These lectures set
before the public the real Dead Sea Scrolls, the most importan collections of Jewish texts from the centuries before the rise
of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible
for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity. Professor Schiffman leads the listener through
the complex details of the Scrolls and their true meaning for the world

The Hebrew Bible by Lawrence H Schiffman(
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2008
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A series of fourteen lectures outlining the history of the Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as
the Old Testament, presented by scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman of New York University's Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies

The Hebrew Bible by Lawrence H Schiffman(
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2008
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2014
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The Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament, is the basis of our tradition of monotheism
as well as the main avenue by which the ethics and teachings of the Hebrew spirit entered Western civilization. Eminent scholar
Lawrence H. Schiffman discusses how that collection came into being and how it was passed down and interpreted through the
ages

The courtyards of the house of the Lord : studies on the Temple scroll by Lawrence H Schiffman(
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2008
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Already before its publication, it was clear that the Temple Scroll represented a major contribution to the history of Jewish
law in late antiquity. This volume brings together the author's studies on this important scroll. He has sought to uncover
the hermeneutics of the Zadokite/Sadducean legal system

The Dead Sea scrolls at 60 : scholarly contributions of New York University faculty and alumni by Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies(
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The Judean desert scrolls and the history of Judaism and Christianity The traditional roots of priestly messianism at Qumran
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish biblical interpretation in antiquity: a multi-generic perspective Zoroastrianism and Qumran
The Judean desert documents as a regional sub-tradition in Aramaic common law Law and exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the
Sabbath carrying prohibition in comparative perspective On the identification of some two Greek fragments of 1 Enoch The Copper
Scroll (3Q15): a reconsideration Quotidian documents from the Judean desert Qumran Hebrew (with a trial cut [1QS]) Sectarians
and householders What is a scriptural text in the Second Temple period? : texts between their biblical past, their inner-biblical
interpretation, their reception in Second Temple literature, and their textual witnesses The "hidden" and the "revealed":
esotericism, election, and culpability in Qumran and related literature Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Joseph L. Angel -- Moshe
J. Bernstein -- Yaakov Elman -- Andrew D. Gross -- Alex P. Jassen -- Erik W. Larson -- Judith K. Lefkovits -- Baruch A. Levine
-- Gary A. Rendsburg -- Alexei M. Sivertsev -- Mark S. Smith -- Shani Tzoref

Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history : festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan by Elliot R Wolfson(
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2012
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"In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor
Chazan...: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions
in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience
of medieval Jewry."--Back cover